Stephen Harris

Broadly speaking this is the principle that your website must be able to be safely navigated for all users. This includes the guideline that your entire...

WAI-ARIA is a W3C protocol which improves your site's interaction with assistive technologies. In this part we look at how to implement it into your theme.

In this series we take a look at Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and what practical steps theme developers can take to make their theme more accessible.

In this tutorial we're going to create a simple plugin which uses the Heartbeat API. Our plugin will alert logged in users, via a growl-like notification,...

In the first part of this series we looked at the basics of the Heartbeat API, and how it can be implemented in a plugin. In this tutorial we'll be looking...

With 3.6, aka "Oscar", just released, lets take a look at some of the new features that are available to developers. In particular, in this series I'll be...

In the last tutorial we looked at exporting data from a custom table. Of course this is only half the story - we obviously need to provide a way of importing...

As mentioned in the very first article of this series, one of the major problems with custom database tables is the fact that they are not handled by...

Over the lifetime of your custom table you will probably find that you need to make changes to what it stores, or how it stores it. This may be in response...

In the first part of this series we looked at the disadvantages of using a custom table. One of the major ones is the lack of an API: so in this article...

This is part two of a series about custom database tables in WordPress. In part one we covered the reasons for, and against, using custom tables. We looked...

In this series we'll be looking at using custom database tables. We'll cover how to create, maintain and remove the table, as well as how to safely, and...